Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...

The consultants in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offer an observation service that provides formative, confidential, and timely feedback to instructors on their teaching and course-design ...

Establishing a peer review of teaching process and community culture is not easy and takes time. Following recommendations from literature, research, and colleagues can help. A synthesis of this work ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

Many units on the CU Boulder campus have been working in partnership with the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) Inititiative to better align their teaching evaluation practices with known scholarship ...

The Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) offers a number of confidential services on teaching and learning that are designed to make effective use of your time in achieving your goals and your ...

Student teaching is a full-time program, requiring at least 13 weeks in a prek-12 classroom with a mentor teacher. A teacher candidate works five days each week in the classroom. During the first week ...

The Brandeis Center for Teaching and Learning helps to connect faculty with colleagues on campus in the spirit of continuous improvement in our teaching and learning. It is expected that the benefits ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can administrators (and even other teachers) best do observations of a lesson? I think it’s safe to say that most teachers, including us veterans, get nervous when ...

Student evaluations of my spring English composition course arrived the other day, and I read them with the usual stew of satisfaction, frustration, and puzzlement. The numbers looked good, and I ...